Cruising: Whaddaya wanna be on and in?
For our Saturday cruise, we have a couple options. Canoeing down the Wisconsin River near Spring Green or paddling about Governor Dodge State Park. Preference? If we do the river, you'll have a choice of kayak or canoe. What's your pleasure? The State Park doesn't take reservations, so we'd end up with whatever is available when we show up. River: www.wiriverside.com/CanoeTubeKayak.htm Park: www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/govdodge/index.html Also, any other thoughts for Saturday during the day or nighttime fun? www.southwestwi.com/ www.midcontinent.org/news/news21.html (Thanks to Weekender Mike for finding this.)
Surfeit’s up! (The grub and glug-glug blog)
As in years past, Your Obedient Servant (with help from the Mikottii) will bring along the nucleus of our meals -- main meats and muffins mainly. (A $20/Weekener donation for food and fun costs will be greatly appreciated.) If everyone else plans on bringing side stuffs, snackables, and desserts, we should have some mighty fine eating throughout the weekend. We'll probably have four meals at the lodge: two breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner. Plan on going out to a fish fry on Friday night. (For planning purposes: There will be about 16 of us.) Please "comment" here to let us [...]
I hate haikus lots | Stupid little pointless things | Wait I just did one
What, besides tolerable, would Weekend be without our Annual "I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry" Slam. The winner (chosen in theory by the audience but in effect by the cocktail bar) is wreathed with honor as Malvolian of the Year and earns a minimally interesting gift award at best. Any form of poetry is acceptable, though the Homeric Epic has never been a big hit. One may wish to study previous entries for inspiration, or perhaps as a form of aversion therapy. Among favorite forms for Weekenders have been: The Haiku. Three lines (5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again) [...]
Are we there yet? (The transportation blog)
Who's up for starting Weekend early? We'd meet up at my house at 10 on Friday morning (the 14th) and hit an appropriate amount of pubs and cheeseries on the way. Suggestions for stops are welcome. Also, let us know if you're willing to drive. Feel free to open up any other caravan/carpool-related discussions, too. (My address is 184 Tanglewood Drive, Glen Ellyn.) - YOS
Compleat the Caption Contest
From Weekender Mike ... Help capture the essence of “Weekend With” and aide in the production of humorous promotional materials, and indeed, help us find new ways to self-absorb together more fully. The idea is this: best photo matched with best completion of the phrase: “Weekend with William: _________________ .” Happily, we have stumbled upon a methode of drawing this out for several weeks: Parte One: Findeth Canon (or Nikon) Fodder. Deadline: May 29th Nominate a happy few (no more than five) Photographical Evidences for captioning. Seeke out the Funny, Interesting or Outrageous vistas and visages crying out for a [...]
Announcing WwWm IX
Good Friends All -- How's this sound: Partying at our own private hunting lodge, summer booze cruise, reliving the swinging Seventies at an authentic Midwestern "supper club," complete with gimlets, giant steaks, and grasshoppers ... This year, Weekend w/Wm is August 14-16 in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Here's the plan: Friday: Wend up to Spring Green - Cocktails and dinner at Thym's Supper Club - Play on the hill (playinthewoods.org) - After-Party at Ceder Valley Lodge .... Saturday: Big Weekend Breakfast at the lodge - Boozing 'n' cruising - Cookout and Party .... Sunday: Big Breakfast II - Rewend home. We've [...]
Top Ten 2008
After a record number of entries and votes, we are proud to roll out the officially exciting 2008 Weekend With William Wisconsin Top Tens ... First, the Top Honorable Also Rans -- entries with at least a couple votes: 11) "Come on, everybody, we appear to be in a big hurry." (Amy gets some backsass after trying to move our tubes downstream instead of sideways.) 12) "Looks like seventeen years of vegetarianism out the window." (Yes, Beth, Sharon's "tuna" salad will do that to you.) 13) Robert the Doll. (It is critical with this one to enunciate in a Hagean [...]
Poetry Revue
It is requested that you review (and, if necessary, enjoy) the following outstanding selections from Ww/WmWi. Then -- leaving behind your empathy and personal feelings -- tell us, in "Leave A Comment," your selection for best Poem, so that we might select our 2008 Malvolian of the Year. Also, email YOS or leave a comment if you have any additions or changes to your entries. I know I'm missing at least three or four here. UPDATE: After carefully reviewing the flood of votes, we have a 2008 Malvolian of The Year. It is Deb Dicke, for the haunting elegy A [...]
Voting Now Open for Top Ten 2008
Michael Phelps got nothing on us: We earned a record 47 Top Ten entries this year. Please carefully review them herein and then cast your ballot for your ten favorite by number in the "Leave A Comment" section, below. You can also add another entry there. The official Top Ten will be announced at the annual Willie Awards, now available on Comcast. 1) "Aristophanes?!" (Bryan's dramatic reading during the Allen Ludden Papers tour.) 2) "Make historical markers part of your lifestyle." (From Melissa) 3) "Screw you guys; I'm getting on that canoe." (Sayeth Deb, referring to an offer from a [...]
Poems (?)
Best Declining RSVP Award Dismal solitude. Journey halted. Absent from Weekender revel. - Elizabeth H.